[Farnsworth]

funny stuff.

Had a rooster once that would peck at the screen door. when the door would bounce back from his pecking, he’s stick his head in the crack between the door and the frame and push himself through.

He then would crow, walk down the hall to our back porch, fight my moms house shoes and then walk into the living room to say hi.

[hoosierham]

We had a common tomcat that would bounce the unhooked but spring-closed screen door until he could get a paw behind it,and into the farmhouse he would come.Also startled one day to see another cat pick up a dropped 10d nail in one paw,then sit there turning it and studying it,as though “what IS this, and what can I do with it?”

Sadly ,the loss of working farms in this area,and their replacement by Mcmansions along the roads with the back acreage reverting to wild-growth woodlands have also provided shelter for multiple coyote packs.Since no farmers and their sons are hunting ‘coons and other critters,or shooting coyotes to protect the sheep and cattle ,predators have rebounded.We have lost several dogs and as many cats to coyotes and also cats to owls.We can't keep all the dropped-off pets in the house,and sending them to the “shelter” pretty much gaurantees their death in a few days.